Nicole Perlroth

Ed Ou for The New York Times

Nicole Perlroth, technology reporter for The New York Times, covers cybersecurity and privacy for the Bits blog and for print. Before joining the San Francisco bureau of The Times in 2011, she was a deputy editor at Forbes where she covered venture capital and Web start-ups and produced the Midas List, the magazine’s annual ranking of top tech deal makers. Her reporting has ranged beyond technology to topics like food, bioethics and education. Ms. Perlroth is a graduate of Princeton University and Stanford University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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February 6, 2015, Friday

Evidence gathered by software hidden by the N.S.A. to monitor North Korean activities proved critical in persuading President Obama to accuse the government of ordering the cyberattack on Sony, officials said.